The Cause of the Black Soldat Bug

I noticed this playing inf_Meatball with me and one bot on the bravo team.

I added as many red bots as possible (Zaku, using the Mecha Soldat Mod), until I reached 32 and recieved an error from Soldat. However, the game kept working, and in the place of the last bot I spawned was a black Soldat. This happens every time I try to spawn too many bots. I believe the black Soldat is caused by a mishandle of the number of players and their info in the game.

Auto /Victory ?

I was playing with bots on inf_warehouse and landed a grenade on a bot without shooting or being in the air. It killed him instantly and my character automatically did the /victory command. This happens each time I do this, no matter on which map or how many bots. As long as I don't shoot them first, and kill them with one direct grenade, I automatically /victory.

Discuss.

I dont get that auto vic thing... i should try...

when i played with alexoner, it happened too...

0_°

Boobies.

yea.. that all black man stalks me :/

he gives me nightmares

quote:Originally posted by HitmanBoobies.


Agreed.

I think this is the first step to discovering why the Black Soldat appears. I never knew the automatic /victory was in the game however. If you need more decriptive steps, try this:

Stand on any terrain and wait for a bot to approach you. Without shooting or jumping into the air, toss a grenade at him and hit him DIRECTLY. It must kill him in one hit. Realistic mode is a good way to test this.

If you directly hit him and kill him instantly, your Soldat will automatically perform the /victory command.

Must the 'nade victim be at full health?

I like the auto /victory. it makes fun of the bot you pwned with one grenade. But the only downfall is that when you /victory you get staled for a second or two. that is why i don't do some things like that.

well...i was playing in flashback DM with 3 bots, max 12 players. black guy appears. other bots dont seem to notice it. there were no other players in game other than me, commando, admiral, and d dave

apparently u can spawn the black soldat by typing /addbot *

so,typing /addbot * (with the star*) adds a black soldier?Hmm..I gotta try that

Yeah, It's not BLACK BOT!!1 It's the black ghost.. *spooky*

Never had that /victory thing... O.o

me neither. so the black ghost dude is something michal added on purpose? freeky

The auto victory has happened to me before, I got a double kill on a Boogie Man and a Knifer(who was stabbing in the air)

>> Auto /Victory
First I thought that someone hacked my computer and did this, I had no idea why, but then I remembered I was trying to make the bots go /victory, it must of stayed there. Cool discovery.

>> Black Soldat
Thanks for the tip. I tried to remove him many times, but he keeps on returning / haunting.

quote:Originally posted by Michal Marcinkowski1. but then I remembered I was trying to make the bots go /victory

2. I tried to remove him many times, but he keeps on returning / haunting.
1. That would be nice, crying soldiers.
2. Oh crud. Remove them immediately or we're all gonna get a heart attack. :/

No keep, the /addbot * command. I've been using that for a long time to test wepons and blood effects for my mods and also as practice targets for tricks and stuff. It's great as a sort of sandbox for soldat, on the map dm_sandbox.

http://chaoticvoid.com/~ryukk/files/blackdeath.sdm

mmh instead of keeping the black bot bug, just add an extra line for bot files in the next soldat version, Michal.

"Dummy=0/1/2"

if Dummy=1, then the bot doesnt move at all but cannot be killed too, so you have your testing bot and you can style it too.
if Dummy=2, then the bot doesnt move too, but it can be killed
and
Dummy=0 is a normal bot.

teh dummy idea is so sweet! good idea GD! but then we have human colliders!

I got 4 Black Bot(Ghost, Death, whatever) shots.

http://tinypic.com/4pzf6d
http://tinypic.com/4pzfif
http://tinypic.com/4pzfoj
http://tinypic.com/4pzfqu

EDIT: Fixed 'em. I know they're small, but you can see it.

That don't work. Fix 'em and change them from bmp to something better...

The black gay bot appear too if you did something wrong in the bot file ( such the color )